I touched on this briefly in my post a couple weeks ago, Communication Lessons from Fairy Tales, but here is a more in depth look at this phenomenon. Words like awesome, fabulous, I’m STARVING, DEAD TIRED… everyone says them, but most don’t truly mean them. Are we desensitized to them so much now that these words don’t mean anything anymore? When someone with thyroid disease or fibro says I’m exhausted. Most think tired. When someone is truly in pain and says it’s excruciating. Most think it hurts. When someone is clinically depressed or has had a death in the family and says depressed, most think sad. What's the danger in this? 1. Using inflammatory words too often will give the impression...
There is a new trend in advertising to sound as IF you are cursing, but aren’t actually using those words. This greatly bothers me. For example, here is a booking.com commercial. Here’s another one from Fresh and Easy Market: They can't think of a better creative way to market their products without using obvious substitutes for curse words? This commercial is on during family time. What is this teaching our children? Do they think they don’t get it? Shame on them! Now, I’m not one who says all words that take the place of swear words are bad. Most of those words don’t bring the image of swear words. They are creative and fun alternatives to saying whoops! Like oh...
"The hardest part about being a mom is I have to keep a human being alive." Seriously?! Pretty Wicked Moms is a "reality show" on Lifetime that is not to be taken seriously. However, when I saw the preview for this, the mom in me was highly insulted. And I think all moms should be...all REAL moms I should say. Not only that, but I felt as if so many moms I run into on the street these days seem to have taken this line to heart. My thoughts on the matter: If you think that just keeping your child alive is the hard part, you're not really a mom. You're a baby sitter, a care giver, a trained monkey...
These feel good sayings have become quite popular these days. While they sound good, many of them just aren't true-even if they are said by a famous and well-respected celebrity like Dr. Seuss. Beware that you don't fall for them, and worse yet, communicate as if they are true. Take this one for example. Not everything you feel needs to be said. Those who matter to you may, indeed, mind how you say them even if they don't mind what you say. And those who mind may not matter to you, but they matter to God. How we say things are often even more important than what we say. How we communicate with each other is important to God. He...
